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Time Warner Sees Ally in Web

in News on October 6, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

The chief executive of Time Warner Inc. said he is turning to Google Inc. as an ally in his push to bring cable shows to users across various devices and that the Web giant’s new service for accessing and searching Internet programming on TVs isn’t the threat many television distributors fear.

AOL's Ad Business Not So Much "Leading" as "Leaden"

in News on August 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm PT

The wheels have finally come off of AOL’s advertising business–not that they were ever really on in the first place. On Wednesday, Time Warner reported a 26 percent decline in second-quarter income as the troubled Internet division continued to weigh on its performance. Revenue at AOL fell 16 percent in the quarter, while ad sales rose just two percent. In contrast, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all reported double-digit ad growth in the same period.

AOL’s Ad Business Not So Much “Leading” as “Leaden”

in News on August 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm PT

The wheels have finally come off of AOL’s advertising business–not that they were ever really on in the first place. On Wednesday, Time Warner reported a 26 percent decline in second-quarter income as the troubled Internet division continued to weigh on its performance. Revenue at AOL fell 16 percent in the quarter, while ad sales rose just two percent. In contrast, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all reported double-digit ad growth in the same period.